Thanks to Westworld, Everyone Thinks Poor James Marsden Is a Robot or Chris Pine

For years, James Marsden has been one of Hollywood’s most valuable supporting players, enriching everything from X-Men to Enchanted to 30 Rock with his good looks and equally good humor. (Hell, the guy can even make a poorly animated dog sound charming.) For whatever reason, though, he’s never really broken out as a huge leading man in his own right—though all that may soon change, given his strong performance as one of the main characters on HBO’s hit sci-fi drama Westworld.

Or. . . maybe not. As Marsden revealed on The Late Show Tuesday night, the show may not have exactly raised his profile in the way he was hoping. He’s getting stopped on planes by passengers who demand to know whether he’s actually a soulless robot; he’s getting confused for Chris Pine not by fans on the street, but by crew members on the damn show where he works. Cheerfully as Marsden recalls those encounters, that’s rough stuff for an actor with literal decades of showbiz work under his belt—though the blow may be softened by the fact that Marsden was recently named “World’s Most Handsomest Man” by GQ. (They got his name right and everything.)

And hey, if Marsden decides to lean into the whole “being mistaken for someone else” thing, he’s got a great alias in his back pocket: Matthew McConaughey. His impression of the Oscar winner is so good that it’ll make you root for Teddy to get reassigned to the Dallas Buyer’s Club in Westworld Season 2.